Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina

Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina tackles the meaning of "the nation" by looking to the geographical, ideological, and political peripheries of society.

List of contents

0. INTRODUCTION 1. Cultural Pluralism Written in Stone: Ethnic Monuments in the 1910 Argentine Centennial 2. Modest Pleasures: Shopping and the Formation of the Middle-Class Consumer, 1913-1940 3. Questioning the Binary: Two Women's Tortuous Journeys to the Other Side of the Political Barricades, 1919-1946 4. The Mines of Trapalanda in Our Souls: Race, Space, and Myth in National Identity 5. "Nuestras Malvinas": Nation and Territory in Argentine Traveler Accounts, 1936-1971 6. Third World Argentina: Seventies Activism, Surveillance, and the Politics of National Comparison 7. The Year Censorship Broke: Public Criticism and the Cultural Battle for a New Argentina, 1980-1981 8. Sexuality, Citizenship, and Nation in Argentina's Transition to Democracy 9. The Congreso Pedagógico: Church, State, and Education in Post-Dictatorship Argentina, 1983-1991 10. EPILOGUE: National Imagination and Periodization in Modern Argentine History

About the author

Benjamin Bryce is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Boundaries of Ethnicity: German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario (2022) and To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society (2018).
David M.K. Sheinin is Professor of History at Trent University and Académico Correspondiente of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina. His most recent book is The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations (2022).

Summary

Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina tackles the meaning of "the nation" by looking to the geographical, ideological, and political peripheries of society.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Sheinin Bryce
• Assisted by: Benjamin Bryce (Editor), Bryce Benjamin (Editor), David Sheinin (Editor), Sheinin David (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032344034
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3234403-4
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Latin America, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General